Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -6
Support Score: 4
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • All male board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: -2 ?

MARKBEECH VILLAGE HALL 

Traditional Village Hall for use by local community, including Church for fund raising and other activities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • There are only 3 trustees
  • The Board is completely male

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£35£62£-27n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/22£19£11£7n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/21£24£4£21n/an/an/an/an/a9
31/03/20£10£4£6n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£8£12£-4n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£10£9£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£9£6£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£6£6£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£7£6£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£8£5£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£6£7£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£6£6£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11?*£4£5£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£6£5£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£4£6£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£6£7£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£5£4£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£5£5£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£4£5£-1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 29 years

markbeechvillagehall.org.uk

jamescalvo61@gmail.com

01342850067

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Kent,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 5 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£9,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£5,000
The Foyle Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 07/10/2022
Markbeech Village Hall Centenary Project
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 20/09/2022
towards building works to upgrade the existing kitchen and to improve access (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
National Lottery Community Fund - Markbeech Village Hall Centenary Project
£9,000 11/02/2022
The funding will be used to upgrade the kitchen facilities at the village hall. The project aims to improve the space for activities and encourage wider community use.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 12/04/1995, number: 1045794
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR12: 219 days late, AR11: 92 days late, AR09: 5 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

Rickwoods
Mark Beech
EDENBRIDGE
Kent
TN8 5PG

Objectives

A PLACE OF RECREATION OR EDUCATION UNDER THE NAME OF THE MARKBEECH CLUB FOR THE USE OF PERSONS OF ALL CLASSES REGARDLESS OF SEX OF THE AGE OF 17 YEARS AND UPWARDS RESIDENT IN THE PARISH OF MARKBEECH OR WITHIN A DISTANCE OF 3 MILES THEREFROM AND OTHERWISE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE SAID PARISH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE PARISH OF MARKBEECH AND LOCALITY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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